APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Comments and questions about the APOD on the main view screen.
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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by tamjus » Mon Nov 15, 2010 1:14 pm

I agree with "Benibouftou"... I think it's in the south Pacific with Chile and the Andes towards the top. You can see mountains if you enlarge the pic; they stertch the length of the horizon in the left window and a small part of the left side of the window where her arm is.

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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by dankay67 » Mon Nov 15, 2010 1:24 pm

Over Bering Sea

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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by Redbone » Mon Nov 15, 2010 1:27 pm

Amazing that we have progressed to the point where we can sit around in jeans and a tee-shirt while orbiting the earth.

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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by bostonEddie » Mon Nov 15, 2010 1:28 pm

I say the east coast of Mexico.
You ARE going to tell us what the answer is??

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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by planetquinn » Mon Nov 15, 2010 1:29 pm

I see a large rugged land mass with many coastal islands. It could be Vancouver to Alaska, or Maine to Nova Scotia. But then, I still see canals on Mars. Hey wait, I think I see Grandma’s house.

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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by owlice » Mon Nov 15, 2010 1:44 pm

I have no idea where around the world Dr. Dyson was. I'm wondering what this, cropped from the full-sized image, is, though.
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And here's a crop from the image on the APOD page; smaller, so there's more of the image in the crop.
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What is going on there?
A closed mouth gathers no foot.

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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by Juanchin » Mon Nov 15, 2010 1:46 pm

The Gulf of Mexico!

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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by Nvisible » Mon Nov 15, 2010 1:49 pm

Owlice, I just created an account to ask the same thing. Volcanic eruption? Nose print in the glass?

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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by owlice » Mon Nov 15, 2010 1:53 pm

Nvisible, welcome to Asterisk!

Doesn't look like a nose print, and that'd be some volcano. So weird; I don't know that I've ever seen something like that on a "looking down at Earth" image.
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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by Leon Green » Mon Nov 15, 2010 1:59 pm

I think it is Mexico through the round window, curving away to the Gulf coast above, and Yucatan to the lower right.

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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by Random Cosmos » Mon Nov 15, 2010 2:07 pm

:D In the top window, you can see part of northern Canada :mrgreen: I learned about this 8-) :roll:

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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by Juanchin » Mon Nov 15, 2010 2:19 pm

owlice wrote:I have no idea where around the world Dr. Dyson was. I'm wondering what this, cropped from the full-sized image, is, though.
what.jpg
And here's a crop from the image on the APOD page; smaller, so there's more of the image in the crop.
what2.jpg
What is going on there?
That is probably just a booger smeared on the glass no more no less!!

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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by jww28625 » Mon Nov 15, 2010 2:39 pm

It appears to be to the west of the Yucatan Pennensula, Mexico, probably over the Pacific.

Buffalo Bob

Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by Buffalo Bob » Mon Nov 15, 2010 2:42 pm

Atlantic Ocean, off the west coast of Africa. That's my guess.

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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by BobDob » Mon Nov 15, 2010 2:52 pm

Since she is looking wistfully, and since she's born/raised/schooled in California, my guess is that her eyes are focused there. Perhaps Central America and northern South America in the lowest porthole?

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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by Hmm » Mon Nov 15, 2010 2:56 pm

Has anyone else seen that projection coming out of the earth in the upper left viewport? i thought it was my monitor, but upon zooming in and scrolling it looks like something leaving the earth's atmosphere

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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by JohnD » Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:03 pm

The round window (shades of Playschool, any UK readers?) shows the isthmus between the south-west of France and the Iberian peninsula, with the Bay of Biscay to the left, and the Med to the right, with the Balearic Islands visible at three oclock of the window.

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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by petro3g » Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:07 pm

It is Cape Canaveral.

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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by JFS » Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:10 pm

Gulf of Mexico

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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by orin stepanek » Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:30 pm

owlice; could those specks of light be other satellites in orbit?

Also; our astronaut is a singer. 8-)
APOD Robot wrote: Dr. Dyson is a lead vocalist in the band Max Q
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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by mexhunter » Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:35 pm

Any visual reference to determine terrestrial oceans by crossing the ISS at the time of the photo.
The photo on the other hand, I feel great. You are here as well, no doubt, also could be in Vogue.
Ann referred to as well, that picture has lots of information of the human race.
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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by A APOD Fan » Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:39 pm

The Northern Atlantic and the North Eastern Tip of Canada

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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by jusije » Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:43 pm

east coast of India looking north from Vyjanagar to bengal

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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by Xcaptainx » Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:49 pm

Does anyone know what the white plume is? It's out of the top window rising just above the atmosphere.

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Re: APOD: Home from Above (2010 Nov 15)

Post by KBlackwell » Mon Nov 15, 2010 4:11 pm

Hellenespont

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